"You always get weirdos like Edward who seem to attract women for some reason. If Edward wasn’t a fictional character and you met him in reality he is like one of those guys who would probably be an axe murderer or something."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

"The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being."
— Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume)

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
— Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
— Mother Teresa

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way."
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor)

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
— Bertrand Russell

"Te amo como se aman ciertas cosa oscuras,
secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma.
(I love you as certain darks things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.)"
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor)

"You know you are in love
when you see the world in her eyes,
and her eyes everywhere in the world.
"
— David Levesque

"Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity."
— Paul Auster (Moon Palace)

"Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or--such is the pleasure they experience--they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them."
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)

"So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."
— Paulo Coelho

"Quizás aun no te comprenda. Pero, con un poco de tiempo, llegaré a entenderte. Y no habrá nadie en el mundo que te comprenda mejor que yo."
— Haruki Murakami

"You are, and always have been, my dream."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. "
— Iris Murdoch

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people will say that's not love, that you can't really love someone you don't know. But, I'm not so sure. Love doesn't seem to follow a plan; it's not a series of steps. It can hit with the force of nature--an earthquake, a tidal wave, a storm of wild relentless energy that is beyond your simple attempts at control."
— Deb Caletti

"Live.
Love.
Learn.
Let go."
— Oliver Granger

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays)

"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."
— Albert Einstein

"When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries."
— Paulo Coelho (Brida)

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
— Laozi

"The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility."
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)

"There's nothing happy about love at all!! I would rather have not known real love... if it hurts this much."
— Chitose Yagami (Fall In Love Like a Comic Vol. 1)

"I hate everyday that passes and I can't see you...but, even after a horrible day, hearing your voice seems to make everything better. After a good day, hearing your voice makes it a WONDERFUL day. That's all. Just hearing your voice saying "I love you and I miss you." makes my whole world turn right side up."
— Elissa sales

"What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused."
— Paulo Coelho

"Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is."
— Paulo Coelho

"I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing."
— Graham Greene (The End of the Affair)

"I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be."
— Nicholas Sparks

"I would have fallen in love with you anywhere."
— Susan Minot

""Love is the total devotion to the simplest of dreams.""
— Ian Grunfeld

"After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony."
— Paulo Coelho (The Witch of Portobello)

"The one who gets you is the one who makes you forget you ever desired anything as dull and ridiculous as perfection."
— Carla Neggers (White Hot)

"Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down. "
— Drew Barrymore

"If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go."
— Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle)

"'How can anyone be afraid of love?'
'How can they not?' His face was completely aghast. 'When you love someone... truly love them, friend or lover, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt-you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it's crippling-like having your heart carved out. It leaves you naked and exposed, wondering what you did to make them want to hurt you so badly when all you did was love them. What is so wrong with you that no one can keep faith with you? That no one can love you? To have it happen once is bad enough... but to have it repeated? Who in their right mind would not be terrified of that?'"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon (Devil May Cry)

"I wish I knew how to quit you."
— Annie Proulx (Brokeback Mountain)

"Love is so unpredictable. That what makes it so great"
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever. Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it's possible to love someone?"
— Aidan Chambers (This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn)

"LOVE? It's like a cigarrette. you get addicted fast, but it slowly and painfully kills you from the inside out. "
— alli ward

"Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a thought with moving parts or direction. Just love, all of it, as it is. Whether it's enough or not. Wthether it's real or we're making it up. However shoddy it gets, or bent out of shape. It's still extraordinary. However foolish, however vain. However badly it ends. Love."
— Julian Gough (Juno & Juliet: A Novel)

"Love is an endless mystery, because there is no any reasonable cause that could explain it."
— Rabindranath Tagore

" The couple that fights the most is the one most in love... it shows they care enough to notice the other one screwed up and care enough to mention it to the person so they can fix it. When you stop fighting it means you stopped caring."
— Shawna Waltemyer

"As long as you're happy, I'll deal with the consequences. "
— Megan Dillion

""maybe that's what it all comes down to. love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. and maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.""
— Emily Giffin

"Being in a couple is hard. And committing, making sacrifices; it’s hard. But if it’s the right person, then it’s easy. Looking at that girl and knowing she’s all you really want out of life, that should be the easiest thing in the world. And if it’s not like that, then she’s not the one"
— Marshall